PHOTOS: A 2nd alarm house fire on Port Drive in Sweet Home brought a large response from the Sweet Home Fire District Tuesday night. The 911 call came in at 11:23 p.m. reporting that the home was engulfed in flames and that everyone had evacuated.
“The occupants had noticed the fire and evacuated immediately with only the clothes they were wearing, just making it out of the house in time,” Sweet Home Fire District said.
The rural location of the home meant that there were no water hydrants and all water needed to be shuttled in by tender. The home’s long, narrow driveway presented challenges for access and egress of the water tenders and other apparatus.
Only one engine could get close enough to the home to pump handlines, while a second engine was set up further down the driveway to relay pump to it from a portable tank kept full by the tender shuttle operations.
